Guineafarm.com

[Sfraker]

Has anyone purchased hatching eggs from guineafarm.com? I purchased 1 dozen of their rare assorted. This past weekend was hatching day, only two tried to hatch and one made it.

6 of the eggs weren't fertile. I emailed them 24 hours ago and haven't heard back yet.

I know shipped eggs can be iffy on hatching but I hatch guinea, geese, ducks & quail regularly shipped or from my own flock. I've not had this bad of a fertility rate in the past.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue.

 

[R2elk]

Has anyone purchased hatching eggs from guineafarm.com? I purchased 1 dozen of their rare assorted. This past weekend was hatching day, only two tried to hatch and one made it.

6 of the eggs weren't fertile. I emailed them 24 hours ago and haven't heard back yet.

I know shipped eggs can be iffy on hatching but I hatch guinea, geese, ducks & quail regularly shipped or from my own flock. I've not had this bad of a fertility rate in the past.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue.

It has been a few years but I normally got around a 55% hatch rate from guinea hatching eggs shipped from the Guinea Farm. For me it was an excellent hatch rate since I am hatching a one mile high altitude.

 

[Sfraker]

@R2elk Do you know what the fertility rate was?

 

[R2elk]

@R2elk Do you know what the fertility rate was?

It is really difficult to establish a fertility rate on shipped hatching eggs since there are conditions that can ruin the eggs in such a fashion that no development begins even though the eggs were fertile. A person would need to eggtopsy to establish whether or not the eggs that showed no development were in fact infertile or whether they showed no signs of development for other reasons. On home grown eggs it can be assumed that lack of development means an infertile egg but that is not necessarily the case with shipped eggs.